Apparatus for piling piece goods.



J. W. BANKS.

APPARATUS FOR PILING PIECE GOODS.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 29, 1908. I

Patented May 17,1910.

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APPARATUS FOR FILING mos GOODS.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 29, 1908. I

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J. W. BANKS. APPARATUS FOR FILING PIECE GOODS.

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JAMES WILLIAM BANKS, OF BRADFORD, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR 0F TWO-THIRDS TO THEFIRM OF DENISON, PREUSSNER AND COMPANY, OF BRADFORD, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR FILING- PIECE GOODS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 29, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMEs WILLIAM BANKS, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, engineer, residing at Bradford, Yorkshire, England, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Pilin Piece Goodsin Rope Form, Yarns, I arps, and the Like, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improved apparatus for piling piece goods inrope form, warps, yarns and the like which have passed lengthwisethrough machines in which they have been treated, for the purpose ofbleaching, dyeing and the like.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved apparatus in whichthe piece goods or the like as they are fed over a roller winch or thelike, are given, in addition to a to and fro motion, a traversing motionat right angles to the to and fro motion.

By the present invention the piece goods or the like are fed in anysuitable manner from the usual keir by a winch or the like to a rotatingand swinging or oscillating winch having a motion at right angles to itslength. In connection with this oscillating winch and secured to theframe of the same, are pot eyes or guides through which the piece goodspass before reaching the winch, these pot eyes or guides are mounted ondepend ing brackets which are given an oscillating or reciprocatingmotion parallel to the length of the winch.

In order that the invention may be fullyunderstood reference will now behad to the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a front elevationof the device. Fig. 2 a plan view of the same showing the driving gearomitted from Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 an end view looking at the left-hand endof Fig. 2.

In these drawings the rotating winch 1 is mounted on depending swingingbrackets 2, themselves mounted on a rotating main shaft 3 bearing insuitable bearings or brackets 4 supported by suit-ably arranged girdersor beams 5. This main shaft 3 carries a driving pulley 6, and a secondpulley 7 whereby its motion can be communicated to asecond shaft 8bearing in the brackets 9 mounted on the girders or beams 5, this secondshaft carries disks 10 or cranks keyed thereto which by means ofconnecting rods 11 are connected to the depending winch brackets 2, sothat the rotation of the disks 10 communicates an oscillating motion tothe winch 1. The disks 10 may if desired be slotted as at 12, so thatthe connection with the connecting rods 11, may be adjusted toward oraway from the center whereby the throw of the connecting rod can also beadjusted. The winch is rotated by a suitable pulley 13 connected by beltor other gearing 14 to a similar pulley 15 on the main shaft 3.

The depending winch brackets 2 are provided with horizontal cross staysor rods 16, and on the upper of these depending brackets 17 carrying poteyes 18 at their extremities, are pivotally mounted. The pot eyes 18,are located on about a level with the axis 19 of the winch 1. These lastbrackets 17 are interconnected by a suitably mounted link 20. Alsomounted on the cross stay 16 is a lever 21 connected by a link 22 to oneof the depending pot eye brackets 1 The lever 21 carries at its upperend a roller 23 shown in Fig. 2, which is engaged or acted on by a cam24 mounted on the shaft 25 which latter bears in brackets 26 connectedto one of the swing depending brackets 2. The shaft 25 carries a wormwheel 27 which gears with a worm 27 on the main shaft 3, the arrangementof the parts being such that the shaft 25 is continuously turned andthat the cam 2c is caused to operate continuously upon the lever 21, toswing the same pivotally, and thereby to impart oscillatory movement tothe pot-eye supporting means in the direction parallel with the winchaxis. Springs 37 are arranged which tend to keep the pot eyes to theextreme left and so operate as to return the same from the extreme rightwhither they have been forced by the cam 24. The depending brackets 9carrying the shaft 8 are made integral with traveling carriages 28 (oneof which is removed for clearness from Fig. 2) which carriages 28 travelalong the girders 5 on wheels or rollers 29 mounted on shaft 30. Theleft hand of these carriages 28 carries the bearings 4 for the mainshaft, together with bearings 31 for the guide pulleys 32. The drivingbelt, chain orrope 33 is passed over two pulleys 34: indicated in Fig.3, under the guide pulle s 32 and over the main driving pulley 6. ne ofthe pulleys 34 is driven from any suitable place by a rope chain or thelike 35. Depending brackets 38 are arranged on the carriages 28 havingholes therein corresponding to holes in plates 39 secured to the beams5.

As will be seen from the foregoing description the main shaft 3 carriesthe winch 1, which is rotated by the belt or other gearing 14 therefrom,while it is given an oscillating'motion from the second shaft 8, at thesame time the pot eyes 18 are given an oscillating motion parallel tothe axis of the Winch 1 by means of the worm 27 cam 24 and link 22, sothat the material fed through the pot eyes and over the winch will befed to and fro at right angles to the winch, and the same traversed toand fro lengthwise of the winch, so that the goods will besatisfactorily piled in the pits 36. As the shafts 3 and 8, and the restof the apparatus are in the carriage 28 capable of being traveled alongits bearing or supporting bearers or guides 5, the apparatus can belocated over the difierent sets of pits 36 to be filled, being locked inposition by pins or bolts 40 passed through the holes in the brackets 38and plates 39.

I declare that what I claim is 1. In apparatus for piling piece goods inrope form, warps, yarns and the like, a rotating winch having anoscillating motion at right angles to its axis, and pot eyes connectedfor oscillatory movement in unison with said winch and capable ofmovement parallel with the axis of said winch.

2. In apparatus for piling piece goods in rope form, warps, yarns andthe like, a rotating winch, depending swinging supporting means for saidwinch, means for oscillating said winch supporting means at right anglesto the axis of said winch, pot eyes, swinging depending bracketscarrying said pot eyes and mounted on said winch supporting means, andmeans for oscillating said pot-eye carrying brackets parallel with theaxis of the said winch.

3. In apparatus for piling piece goods in rope form, warps, yarns andthe like, a main shaft, means for rotating said main shaft, dependingbrackets capable of oscillating on said main shaft, a winch carried bysaid brackets, driving means between said main shaft and said winch,further depending brackets mounted on said first-named brackets andcapable of oscillating parallel to said main shaft in combination withconnections to said main shaft for oscillating said further brackets.

l. In apparatus for piling piece goods in rope form, warps, yarns andthe like, a winch, depending brackets carrying said winch, a main shaftsupporting said brack ets, a second shaft, means for rotating saidsecond shaft from said main shaft, a crank device on said second shaft alink between said crank device and said depending brackets, pot eyes,depending brackets carrying said pot eyes and mounted on said winch,

carrying brackets and means for oscillating said pot eyes parallel withthe axis of the said winch.

5. In apparatus for piling piece goods in rope form warps, yarns and thelike, a winch, depending brackets carrying said winch, a main shaftcarrying said brackets, a second shaft, means for rotating said secondshaft from said main shaft, a crank device on said second shaft, a linkbetween said crank device and said depending brackets, pot eyes,brackets carrying said pot eyes and mounted on said winch carryingbrackets, a link between the pot eye brackets, a further link connectedto one of the said pot eye brackets, a lever connected to said furtherlink and mounted on the winch depending brackets, a rotating cam actingon said lever and means on the main shaft for rotating said cam.

6. In apparatus for piling piece goods in rope form, warps, yarns andthe like, a winch, oscillating depending brackets supporting said winch,a shaft supporting said depending brackets, a cross-stay on saiddepending brackets, further depending brackets mounted on saidcross-stay, pot eyes carried by said further depending brackets, a cammounted on said first depending brackets, connections between one ofsaid further depending brackets and said cam for transmitting motion ofthe cam thereto, means for actuating said cam, and springs between saidfirst and further depending brackets.

7. In apparatus for piling piece goods in rope form, warps, yarns andthe like, depending brackets, a rotating Winch carried thereby andhaving an oscillating motion at right angles to its axis, pot eyesconnected for oscillatory movement in unison with said winch, and havinga further oscillating motion parallel to the axis of the said winch,carriages supporting said winch carrying brackets and means fortraveling said carriages in a direction at right angles to the axis ofsaid winch.

8. In apparatus for piling piece goods in rope form, warps, yarns andthe like, supporting beams or girders carriages on said beams orgirders, a main shaft bearing in said carriages, a rotating winch,depending brackets supporting said winch, pot eyes, means connected withsaid main shaft for rotating said winch for oscillating said winch andpot eyes at right angles to the axis of the winch and for traveling saidpot eyes longitudinally of said winch.

9. In apparatus for piling piece goods in rope form, warps, yarns andthe like, supporting beams or girders, carriages on said beams orgirders, a main shaft bearing in said carriages, rollers supportingsaid. carriages on said beams or girders, a pulley on said main shaft,guide pulleys on said carriages, driving means passing under said guidepulleys and over said pulley on the main shaft, means for supporting anddriving said driving means, means for locking said carriages indifferent positions on said beams or girders, a winch parallel with anddepending from said main shaft, means for rotating said winch, a secondshaft driven from said main shaft, means on said second shaft andconnected with said winch for giving said winch anoscillating motion,pot eyes oscillating with said Winch and means for traveling said poteyes to and fro parallel with said winch.

10. An apparatus of the character described having a rotating winch,supporting means therefor capable of oscillatory movement, a pot eyecapable of movement parallel with the axis of the winch, and supportingmeans for the pot eye having pivotal connection with the winchsupporting means and capable of oscillatory movement.

11. An apparatus of the character de scribed having a rotating Winchadapted for oscillatorymovement,supportingmeanstherefor, pivotallymounted pot eye supporting means, a pot eye carried by said last-namedsupporting means and adapted, during piv otal movement thereof, totraverse the Winch in the direction of its axis, said pot eye being alsoadapted for oscillatory movement in unison with the oscillatory movementof the winch, and means for actuating said pot eye supporting means.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES WILLIAM BANKS. lVitnesses:

HUBERT PUMPHREY, CHAS. HIBBERT.

